The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIs it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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